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To: IN_GOD_I_TRUST who wrote (527)	11/16/2001 9:10:13 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2926

"I really need a simplier explanation...." Here's a try: -- there is nothing but the Divine (or God) -- no exceptions -- everything is lived by the Divine -- everything arises in the Divine -- people have 3 bodies, which are coincident with each other--they are the physical, the subtle and the causal. -- when you die you drop the first two bodies, but the last continues in the after-death process and then takes on a new form in another "life" -- if everything is lived by the Divine, how come people do not experience themselves AS the Divine? Because of the ego or self-contraction, which is something that you DO, not what you ARE. The ego or self-contraction is why you experience what you do. -- the Realization of the Divine is possible with the assistance of a being who has gone through the process. Such beings are usually titled "Spiritual Masters". They are usually the source-beings through which religions arise. Is that better? What about this, from Adi Da? "Real God Is Like A Hidden Spring Within the water's world, and Real God Is Prior Even To Cause (and every cause), and Real God Is The Self-Domain Of Even every effect, and Real God Is The Being (Itself) of all that appears" I agree that this is not easy to understand. Part of the reason is that you do not understand it in the normal verbal-mental way. You have to read it, do your best to understand it, and then (internally) ask God to explain it to you. It may not happen instantly. It may only happen partially. But it will happen. Namaste! Jim